Arsenal vs Crystal Palace 23.04.2025 - KO 20:00 GMT

The fact that Palace are playing the fa cup semi final at the weekend has proven to be quite fortuitous for us. It means we have six days between this game and the first leg against PSG. It also means that Palace are going to be far more focused on the semi final game against Villa I think it is than us.


Hopefully we should be able to put out a hybrid team but one that is more than capable of getting three points.


Happy stat, we’ve won the last five league games against palace scoring 17 goals along the way

Can’t envisage too much difficulty here if we apply ourselves correctly. Hard to see Palace being that driven for this given their semi final is only 3 days after.

Another line up like we saw on the weekend should be enough to get the win, while managing the fitness of key players for PSG.

2-0.

0-3 Sarr hatter

Play the kids. They'll probably win anyway.

City are only 5 points behind us as it stands. We definitely need to get the 3 points in tonight because our next 3 fixtures aren’t games you’d be confident of getting wins from.

Bournemouth, Liverpool, Newcastle and Southampton after tonight

We could literally play the under 18s against Southampton and still be confident of a win

I think we will play our strongest team at Anfield and against Newcastle - 4 points I reckon

Bournemouth? Sandwiched between the two matches against PSG, that one most likely to be dropped points

So that means we’d finish on 76-77 points…back in the 90s that would be enough to win you the title

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Play the kids. They'll probably win anyway.

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I think that's probably true given Palace won't take any chances with the FAC semi at the weekend.

I'd love to see NBO given another (and longer) runout, he nearly scored at the weekend and it would be a great momnet in the stadium, I get the sense everyone wants to see him do something

Team to play Crystal Palace: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly; Rice, Partey, Odegaard; Sterling, Trossard, Martinelli
Subs: Neto, Tierney, Saka, Zinchenko, Butler-Oyedeji, Gower, Henry-Francis, Kabia, Nwaneri

Bit of a worrying line up (not for tonight that’s easily strong enough to win comfortably) but that Merino hasn’t made the bench suggests he’s picked up a knock. Now he’s not my ideal of a striker, but given how well he played in both legs against Madrid you’d hope he’s fit for PSG.

Benching Saka is common sense (although I’d prefer Nwaneri starting over Sterling)

Sterling :bow:

Really glad Saka's on the bench

Definitely would have played Nwaneri. There’s no reason for Sterling to be starting games for us anymore.